Michael Penn – HuffPost 4.17.14

Mike Ragogna: Michael, what advice do you have for new artists?

Michael Penn: Do what means something to you. That’s all I can say. If you had asked me that question twenty years ago, which someone did, my answer would have been, “Learn HTML.” At this point, I’m not sure that matters. But I have no answer for what’s going on with the way the business side of things exist now. It just seems completely in flux to me. I don’t think anybody’s got a real clear view of what it can be. It’s ultimately going to be up to the large, multi-national corporations to figure out what kind of model they’re going to create to reimburse people for work. If live music is your thing, that’s great because you’ll always be able to play live. But if recofrded music is your thing, that’s going to get tougher and tougher, I think.